Mina may refer to: 1  Mina, a folk word related with the extraction of mineral resources (mines). 2  Mina (given name) , a given name (and list of people and characters with that name). 3  Mina (surname) , a surname (and list of people with that name).
Salts can be easily identified, since they usually consist of positive ions from a metal with negative ions from a non metal. The salt we put on our fries is actually sodium chloride and is made up of metal Na1+ and non metal Cl1- ions. Often you will see this written as Na+ and Cl- (the 1 is dropped) or simply NaCl.
Salt is in fact sodium chloride and is a necessary mineral for a healthy human body. The fact that salt is made up of sodium chloride can actually make food labels quite confusing. This is because sometimes the labels will only give the amount of sodium in the food and not the amount of salt.